This work describes the sublime beauty of Javanese
mysticism in general terms and then goes on to
discuss Sumarah theory and practice in particular.
The research was done in Surakarta, one of Java's
two magnificent old Mataram court cities, from
1978 to 1980.

THE BOOK OF BEING: "Look for Causes in
Consequences" My Jeremiad that treats: 1) "the Evil
that lurks in the Hearts of Men" (hqoV
anqrwpw daimwn); 2) the Postmodern World's narcissistic abandon;
3) Christianity's insidious Cosmology/Eschatology; 4) the cavalier intellectualism, moral turpitude,
existential/experiential alienation, spiritual vacuity and ever more besotted procrustean reductionism of
Western Science; and 5) a revised reading of "The Book of Love", an obvious concern
that is largely omitted from Western psychology and revealingly reflected in spectacularly empoverished cultural
knowledge (notwithstanding the flood of schmaltz and schlock pumped out by the entertainment industry) concerning the always
peculiar but often consistent course of affective bonding (there are more than 20 words in Javanese for various forms of one
overworked word in English).